Are you sure? This bill proposes that public libraries, which are taxpayer-funded, should be compelled to restrict the information that their patrons are able to access. How is this not government censorship?
You could make an argument for this for schools but not libraries.
My plan is to save and invest wisely. How much money you make (beyond a certain point, obviously) isn't as important as what you do with the money you have. Investing 20% of my pay (safe and diversified, of course) will give me a very good chance of being quite comfortable later in life. I'm probably at the low-to-mid salary range for tech jobs here in San Francisco and I'm still managing to do this.
There is nothing in the constitution that allows him to keep evidence hidden.
Likewise, there is nothing in the constitution that gives the federal government jurisdiction over what is clearly a state case, one the state of California is not interested in prosecuting.
But haven't these upstanding citizens realized that that pervy-old-man-chat.com and such are filled with law enforcement guys? And that they probably shouldn't spell out the details of their plot in a public "incest chat"?
Maybe, but in this case the police only found out about it when one of the guys involved turned himself in.
All you have to do is call their customer service and tell them you're going to transfer all your domains away. They offered me this deal too (I transferred anyway).
$15/year is only expensive when you compare them to the bottom-of-the-barrel crowd, who you probably don't want to do business with anyway. Whatever happened to paying more for quality service?
PairNIC is $13 - $19/year and I have no problem with this for the seven domains I have there. Their support is prompt and efficient and they were one of two registrars I found that don't have horror story after horror story written about them. The other one was Gandi (I went with Pair over Gandi because Gandi doesn't do.us domains and I wanted to keep all my domains together).
I think if "write it down on a slip of paper and carry it around with you" is your idea of a reasonable solution then you have a great future ahead of you on Yahoo's usability team.
In this case, "CEO" means "one of the half dozen people involved".
When did it become cool for startups and independent businesses to adopt these pretentious corporate-style titles? Isn't one of the points of doing your own thing to get away from this sort of BS?
Yahoo certainly seems to have abandoned ease-of-use. This is not something new, of course, but it's something we paying Flickr customers hoped would not be visited upon us.
On all the computers I use the cookie remembers who I am so I can't remember the last time I actually had to login (which is occasionally annoying because I can never remember what my Y! account name is).
You've just illustrated the problem right there. I went from being able to log in to Flickr using my regular e-mail address, which is easy, to having to log in using something like genericuser2343253@yahoo.com, an address which I had to create specifically for this purpose and one that I'll never use outside of this. What are the chances I'm going to remember it when I want to log in from a different computer six months down the road?
This just shows how little concern Yahoo has for their users (and paying customers, in my and a lot of other cases), particularly the "old skool" early adopters that made Flickr worth buying in the first place.
Now maybe I'm blind or forgot how to read English, but I don't think the word "unsolicited" appeared anywhere in the comment you're replying to. In fact, I don't think the original poster said anything at all to indicate this.
There is no objective definition of spam. If Fred calls something spam, then for Fred, it's spam. It doesn't matter if the sender was a legitimate business, or even if he signed up for the newsletter in the first place. If he doesn't want it anymore, then he can go ahead and click the "this is spam" button in his e-mail client, and it will be right.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Listen. Spam absolutely does have a definition: Unsolicited bulk or commercial e-mail.
If the mail Fred is complaining about is unsolicited, great, but what about when Fred can't be bothered to unsubscribe from something he requested? What about when the e-mail is specifically about a service he uses (eg, Flickr's mail yesterday about login changes)? What about the Mailman discussion list he joined and either forgot about or got tired of? What if that was your discussion list being blacklisted because you picked up a few stupid subscribers?
People absolutely do report all manner of legitimate e-mail as spam. Trust me on this one, I spent four years killing spammers at a major ISP and am intimately familiar with the kinds of stuff people consider spam, whether it actually is or not.
I'm also thanking Verizon for this, but only because that means I won't be giving them my money when the iPhone is available. I'm frankly not all that thrilled with Cingular either but, in my experience, dealing with Verizon is far worse (I left Verizon for T-Mobile years ago and never looked back).
Your friends and relatives had to pay deposits because they have piss-poor credit. Why is that Verizon's fault?
It's Verizon's fault because there's no fucking reason they need a credit check in the first place. If their customers don't pay their bills, they should cut them off the same way any other utility does (and I'm sure they will). I've never had to allow a credit check for a land line, electricity, internet access, web hosting, cable TV, or any other subscription-based service, and there's no reason for a cell phone service to do one either.
Do you even read the stuff you link to? Not only does the name Clinton not appear anywhere in that ECHELON article, it states clearly that the program began in the early 1960s, probably right around the time Bill Clinton was graduating from high school.
You're misunderstanding something about Apple. It's not that they do things no one has done before (although they sometimes do); it's that they do it better.
The major functionality of the iPhone is probably pretty similar to every other smartphone out there but where it will excel will be in the UI, both hardware and software.
Yep. I've unlocked two phones on my T-Mobile account, a Nokia 3660 and my current RAZR, and both requests were handled nice and quick, with no problems at all.
"We tried to impeach a president for questionable moral and sexual acts in the oval office."
No, we DID impeach a president for comitting perjury.
Please. Maybe you don't remember it as well as the rest of us, but Clinton was very clearly on trial for having sex. Lying about it was justifiable because it was nobody's damn business in the first place.
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You misspelled "arse".
Come on, what self-respecting Irishman would use the word "ass"?
Are you sure? This bill proposes that public libraries, which are taxpayer-funded, should be compelled to restrict the information that their patrons are able to access. How is this not government censorship?
You could make an argument for this for schools but not libraries.
But you don't need Sun hardware to run Solaris, so it can cost exactly as much as Linux: the cost of the hardware.
My plan is to save and invest wisely. How much money you make (beyond a certain point, obviously) isn't as important as what you do with the money you have. Investing 20% of my pay (safe and diversified, of course) will give me a very good chance of being quite comfortable later in life. I'm probably at the low-to-mid salary range for tech jobs here in San Francisco and I'm still managing to do this.
Likewise, there is nothing in the constitution that gives the federal government jurisdiction over what is clearly a state case, one the state of California is not interested in prosecuting.
It's funny. Laugh.
Sorry, but I think my cat has prior art.
All you have to do is call their customer service and tell them you're going to transfer all your domains away. They offered me this deal too (I transferred anyway).
$15/year is only expensive when you compare them to the bottom-of-the-barrel crowd, who you probably don't want to do business with anyway. Whatever happened to paying more for quality service?
.us domains and I wanted to keep all my domains together).
PairNIC is $13 - $19/year and I have no problem with this for the seven domains I have there. Their support is prompt and efficient and they were one of two registrars I found that don't have horror story after horror story written about them. The other one was Gandi (I went with Pair over Gandi because Gandi doesn't do
I think if "write it down on a slip of paper and carry it around with you" is your idea of a reasonable solution then you have a great future ahead of you on Yahoo's usability team.
I think the point is that "CEO" does not carry its usual weight and meaning when you're talking about a six or seven person startup.
In this case, "CEO" means "one of the half dozen people involved".
When did it become cool for startups and independent businesses to adopt these pretentious corporate-style titles? Isn't one of the points of doing your own thing to get away from this sort of BS?
Yahoo certainly seems to have abandoned ease-of-use. This is not something new, of course, but it's something we paying Flickr customers hoped would not be visited upon us.
This just shows how little concern Yahoo has for their users (and paying customers, in my and a lot of other cases), particularly the "old skool" early adopters that made Flickr worth buying in the first place.
Now maybe I'm blind or forgot how to read English, but I don't think the word "unsolicited" appeared anywhere in the comment you're replying to. In fact, I don't think the original poster said anything at all to indicate this.
If the mail Fred is complaining about is unsolicited, great, but what about when Fred can't be bothered to unsubscribe from something he requested? What about when the e-mail is specifically about a service he uses (eg, Flickr's mail yesterday about login changes)? What about the Mailman discussion list he joined and either forgot about or got tired of? What if that was your discussion list being blacklisted because you picked up a few stupid subscribers?
People absolutely do report all manner of legitimate e-mail as spam. Trust me on this one, I spent four years killing spammers at a major ISP and am intimately familiar with the kinds of stuff people consider spam, whether it actually is or not.
I'm also thanking Verizon for this, but only because that means I won't be giving them my money when the iPhone is available. I'm frankly not all that thrilled with Cingular either but, in my experience, dealing with Verizon is far worse (I left Verizon for T-Mobile years ago and never looked back).
Do you even read the stuff you link to? Not only does the name Clinton not appear anywhere in that ECHELON article, it states clearly that the program began in the early 1960s, probably right around the time Bill Clinton was graduating from high school.
You're misunderstanding something about Apple. It's not that they do things no one has done before (although they sometimes do); it's that they do it better.
The major functionality of the iPhone is probably pretty similar to every other smartphone out there but where it will excel will be in the UI, both hardware and software.
Yep. I've unlocked two phones on my T-Mobile account, a Nokia 3660 and my current RAZR, and both requests were handled nice and quick, with no problems at all.
Please. Maybe you don't remember it as well as the rest of us, but Clinton was very clearly on trial for having sex. Lying about it was justifiable because it was nobody's damn business in the first place.